Speaker 1: Love plays. How do you have to evaluate what there
Speaker 1: that time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it was good just to
Speaker 2: get out there get a feel for obviously the game
Speaker 2: speed and getting hit and trying to go through reads
Speaker 2: and stuff and uh, just get the feel again. So
Speaker 2: obviously wasn't as productive as i'd i'd like to been,
Speaker 2: uh myself, but you know, that's why it's preseason get
Speaker 2: out there and get a feel like that. So I
Speaker 2: want to say about a week ago, got back from
Speaker 2: Nashville pretty early, so yeah, they asked me if I
Speaker 2: wanted to play, and I said, yeah, I'd like to
Speaker 2: get out there and get a feel for it. So, uh,
Speaker 2: it's been good. You know. I like just the way
Speaker 2: he calls plays and everything. And obviously it's preseason, so
Speaker 2: it's pretty you know, are just our basic concepts and plays.
Speaker 2: We're not scheming up other defenses or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So having him get some some reps of calling plays
Speaker 2: the thing is good for him, and and I like
Speaker 2: how he's a game in the field and everything, so
Speaker 2: it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: You didn't mind getting hit, I mean, is that just
Speaker 1: kind of the right of passage that you look for
Speaker 1: a preseason game and then not only the hit, but
Speaker 1: you land on your throwing shoulders, So.
Speaker 2: That's there hazard that yeah, I mean, uh yeah, practice
Speaker 2: you're you're not getting that. You know, you're obviously get
Speaker 2: a pass rush and all that kind of stuff, But
Speaker 2: to get out in the game and understand that, you know,
Speaker 2: there's a mental clock where you have to get the
Speaker 2: ball out or else you gonna get hit, or there's
Speaker 2: times where you do have to stand in there and
Speaker 2: and take some hits. Like that's the kind of stuff
Speaker 2: you can get in practice. And so honestly, it's those
Speaker 2: things that you know, I liked just the idea of
Speaker 2: playing in a preseason game to to feel again, you know,
Speaker 2: before the season gets here and everything. So it's just
Speaker 2: it's good reps for me. It's a good feel for
Speaker 2: me as a quarterback. So you know, I didn't I
Speaker 2: didn't mind it. You know, it's part of the game.
Speaker 2: Like you to series you have any at all, like.
Speaker 1: Buck out of here, you know, series.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, it's part of the game
Speaker 2: and stuff. So for me, I'm not out there freaking
Speaker 2: out about oh my gosh, I'm not trying to get
Speaker 2: hit like that's that's not football, you know. If I'm
Speaker 2: stepping out in the field, then obviously I know what's
Speaker 2: at stake in terms of it's a physical game. It's fast,
Speaker 2: things happen, You're gonna get hit, You're gonnallow the ground,
Speaker 2: So I know that. But at the same time, am
Speaker 2: I gonna do some crazy scrambling and and you know,
Speaker 2: make up some stuff to try to move the ball.
Speaker 2: So you gotta you gotta be smart in that in
Speaker 2: that sense.
Speaker 1: So seventeen practices in now, and a lot of offensive
Speaker 1: players have been missing since the beginning a practice or
Speaker 1: or some missing sporadically. Do you still think you by
Speaker 1: week when you can really hit the ground running and
Speaker 1: be a sharp offense or there's time running out for
Speaker 1: that's really good week one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, obviously, I think we got to take a
Speaker 2: day by day and get guys healthy. You know, that's
Speaker 2: the first thing. I can't just sit up here and
Speaker 2: tell everybody that you know, we're gonna be perfect and
Speaker 2: we're gonna look one hundred percent come game one. Like,
Speaker 2: obviously everyone's different in terms of their bodies being you know,
Speaker 2: healthy and so but from you know, the history that
Speaker 2: we have with guys rehabbing and getting healthy in our
Speaker 2: and our medical staff. They get guys ready, and uh,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, come week one, we'll have a
Speaker 2: good majority of us ready to roll. So I'm pretty
Speaker 2: confident in that. And obviously the coaches are gonna do
Speaker 2: some good scheming and stuff, and I think we will
Speaker 2: hit the ground running. So he's a baller man. He
Speaker 2: makes plays, goes through his reads and brings energy. Man,
Speaker 2: He's he's out there making plays and guys feed off it.
Speaker 2: You know, that's football. You know it's not always going
Speaker 2: to be pretty, and you drop back and everything's gonna
Speaker 2: be perfect, Like you're gonna have to make plays off
Speaker 2: schedule and and uh bring some juice of the team
Speaker 2: and guys feed off that. So love having him in
Speaker 2: the room. And and uh, like I said, he's he's
Speaker 2: pretty electric.
Speaker 1: One that rip it. And we got a chance to
Speaker 1: see him tonight and I thought he looked pretty good.
Speaker 1: What did What did you think of his first performance?
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, awesome. Uh to get out there, get into
Speaker 2: a rhythm, make you know a couple of good throws
Speaker 2: on the run, and and uh, you know he was
Speaker 2: in rhythm on time, Uh, making good decisions man. So
Speaker 2: to go out there fourth quarter. You know, you never
Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen, what defenses are gonna be doing
Speaker 2: at that point. But he went out there and ran
Speaker 2: our offense pretty efficiently. So I'm pumped for him, and
Speaker 2: I know that's gonna continue to boost his confidences as
Speaker 2: he plays more so, pumped for him.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Els kind of bounced around a little bit centered guard. Uh,
Speaker 1: you've had kind of a front row seat watching him
Speaker 1: and being around him. How do you feel about how
Speaker 1: he's developed and taken on in a couple of different positions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, Uh, you know, Nick's ready for it.
Speaker 2: He's smart, Like I said before, obviously he's learned from
Speaker 2: from Brendle, and and uh, he's a guy that's come
Speaker 2: in and you know, sort of earned the respect of
Speaker 2: all the guys in the room that he's playing with.
Speaker 2: And so you know, for me to see him go
Speaker 2: and play but both center and guard and being ready
Speaker 2: for his number to be called, I think he's done
Speaker 2: a good job with all of it, and he's gonna
Speaker 2: be ready for it, ready for his opportunity. And and
Speaker 2: obviously I got his back, and I know that he's
Speaker 2: gonna continue to get better as we go and as
Speaker 2: he gets more reps.
Speaker 1: So yeah, on Friday, what would be a p P
Speaker 1: season anale for for you and Stars?
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you want to get as close as
Speaker 2: you can to the feeling of how it's gonna be
Speaker 2: week one, you know against New York and and getting
Speaker 2: your feet out there and that feeling of you know,
Speaker 2: putting a drive together, you know, moving the ball, first
Speaker 2: downs points on the board. I think that's that's what
Speaker 2: I'm sort of gonna chase for that game. And I
Speaker 2: know we all are as starters, so that's the goal.
Speaker 2: That's the goal every time we step out in the field.
Speaker 2: But week ones rolling up closer, you know, then then
Speaker 2: we know it, so gonna be ready for it. Thanks
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